Un square Frame

[Marc Lizer]

Get a gander qat this:
http://www.thegrumble.com/img/dcp01970.jpg

[CharlesL]

WOW! Marc!
They are wild looking! And, the most interesting frames I've seen!! Great work!!

[Ron Eggers]

Marc,

I was going to make some S.A. remark about how to avoid getting the long legs and short legs mixed up, but I have to tell you, those frames are maaaarvalous - simply maaaarvalous!

Ron

Promise you didn't just take a couple of rectangular frames and photograph them at an extreme angle with a short focal-length lens?

Seriously, they are VERY cool.

[Framar]

Hey Marc, picture Mr. Burns rubbing his hands together and saying, "Excellent! Excellent!"

Probably a LOT harder to do than they look, eh?

Tell us, tell us!!!

[ArtLady]

What a beautiful fish tank. How did you get that colored area in the center?

So Marc, that is really cool!! Was it your design??

[Marc Lizer]

Had a good thing written.

'Puter locked up, held it hostage, and then slaughtered it.

I am bummed.

But, in the interim: what colored area?
How do you think I did this? Or how would you go about this?

I am still bummed. graemlins/icon20.gif

[Ron Eggers]

Marc,

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Ron

[BUDDY]

Marc ; what I'd like most to know is did the client suggest the angled framing or did you? The reason is , was the art done whith the decreaseing prospective deliberately or did you suggest that it be done that way becuse of blank areas in the art work?
My guess as to how it would be done is to derive at the best angle and compute the angles of the matting useing either Trig or a sliding protracter then compute the width of the matting and draw it on the back and cut away. The reverse could also be done ,figure the angles of the frame maybe by useing the Barton Multiangle book and then lay the mat under the frame and scribe the desired width and it's intersections.
The Most dificult thing was the concept( Design) and why it was choosen. At any rate the Design is Fabulous and the colors are great nad the technical aspects look perfect . In other words GREAT JOB.

Framar ,I don't know who Mr. Burns is but I agree with him.
BUDDY

[Marc Lizer]

The Back Story:

The item is a late 50's or very early 60's watercolor of some sort of aquatic theme. Could be a fish tank. Could be an underwater scene ala Mr Limpett. Or it just could be some freaky mental image the artist had swimming in his/her head.

It was painted in the shape you see.

It is not painted in persepctive. It is a flat and straight perspective. It is just meant to be a freaky shaped matching set.

So the shape was dictated by the art, not the customer or me.

Matting colors were customers pick. Yes, a bit loud, but kinda fitting for the art. It actually looks more primo vintage with the bight tacky color.

The frame is a Universal full wrap burl veneer. Again, kinda fishy looking, and kinda vintage looking.

[Marc Lizer]

The Front Story:

The Mat: I gave the art to the Mat Cutter, along with board numbers and border widths.

A short time later the mat was done.

It was that simple.

I didn't instruct him what to do, and I do not know how he did it. All I know it was surprisingly fast and easy(for him, at least).

The Frame:

This too was surprisingly easy.

On the next street over from us, is another warehouse/manufacturing street like our street.

Of the business on that street, are a Custom Production Furniture /Wood Pruducts Company. A Custom and Production Cabinet Company. And a Custom, "One-Off" Furniture and WoodCarving Company.

I walked over the mldg, and a cardboard template of the mat to the third one, and picked up the the finished frames the next day.

I don't even want to get into a Bastard Angle (the actual technical name, seriously!). They live for this type of stuff, or at least, they do it in thier sleep.

The did not charge us for the work. It's a neighborhood thing.

The right professional for the right job will always yield better results. We know where and how to get it done. We don't need to do it all. We just need to know how to bring it all together.

I know this Cornell may take issue with this. If you do to, give a post and tell what you think.

In the end, we did had the knowledge of how to complete the job for the customer. And collected money for our services. Isn't that what it's also all about?

Throw stones now:

[Kizmet6382]

I hate to admit this..but i had to study it a little bit. I was seeing the frame on 2 different walls, cornered up. (Optical illusion). You outdid yourself on this one. Very impressive.
Kirsty